Fabrication And Characterisation of AA6063-T6/SiC/Waste Bone Powder Using Electromagnetic Stir Casting. Issue 1 (1st July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sharma, Ojasvi; Gupta, Prateek; Kumar, Tarun
• Is Part Of: IOP conference series. Volume 1248:Issue 1(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-07-01
• Subjects: Electromagnetic stir casting -- Tensile Strength -- Hardness -- XRD analysis and FESEM; Materials science -- Periodicals; 620.1105
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/1248/1/012076
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-8981

Abstract

Abstract: Electromagnetic stir casting (EMSC) is a highly effective process to produce the metal matrix composite (MMC) because of the uniform mixing of reinforcement with the matrix. The current research is to investigate AA6063-T6/2wt%SiC/5wt%WBP hybrid composite using Microstructure analysis, Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), Tensile strength and Hardness. Stirring time and speed is kept as constant parameter. Microstructure analysis reveals that there is uniform distribution of reinforcement in AA6063-T6 hybrid composite and no voids were observed. FESEM analysis shows that reinforcement have a good bonding with a small porosity. XRD analysis indicates that there are no unwanted contaminants found and Al3 Ca shows the highest peak followed by Al2 (CO3 )3 and CaSiO3 . It was concluded that mechanical properties are improved on adding the reinforcement, tensile strength by 22.4% and hardness by 31%.